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Below is a family biography included in the History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania published in 1889 by A. Warner & Co. These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary. Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more. There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.
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JOHN T. PENNEY, McKeesport, was born Sept. 4, 1856. William Penney, his grandfather, was born March 20, 1772. He was a brother of James, the father of Thomas Penney, whose sketch appears elsewhere. William’s wife was Martha, daughter of Jesse Gill, and their son John, the father of John T. was born March 30, 1808. He was married first to Ruth Carothers, who bore him William, Samuel E. and James E.; then to Rebecca Culler, the mother of his sons John T. and Adam C. John Penney, Sr., was a mine operator, which business he followed successfully till the panic of 1873.
After passing through the junior year at college, John T. Penney went (in 1879) to Florida and engaged in the lumber business. On the failure of his health, in 1882, he returned to McKeesport, and was a bookkeeper in a manufacturing-house in Pittsburgh till 1885, when he became one of the firm of Penney, Milholland & Co., founders and machinists. In November of that year he and his brother, A. C. Penney, purchased Milholland’s interest in the firm, and they are still engaged in the business.
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This family biography is one of 2,156 biographies included in the History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania published in 1889 by A. Warner & Co.
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